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Woo plugs AI assistant into tech recruiting process
Highr Pattern Ltd., which runs a recruiting site called Woo that matches employers with passive job seekers, is joining the artificial intelligence parade with an automated headhunter that automatically scouts, approaches and connects candidates with potential employers. The company said its “Helena” assistant eliminates much of the trial-and-error of the recruitment process by using machine ...
Survey finds business executives are quickly getting on board the AI train
Big companies are notoriously slow to adopt new technology, but that isn’t how things are shaping up in the area of artificial intelligence, according to a new survey of nearly 500 business executives. The research, which was conducted by Harvard Business Review and sponsored by Apttus Inc., found that 60 percent of executives at business-to-business ...
Comtrade broadens data protection scope for Nutanix environments
Comtrade Software Inc. has boosted its Hyperconverged Uptime software for Nutanix Inc.’s Enterprise Cloud Platform. It now includes support for VMware Inc.’s ESX hypervisor along with improved support for Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange and SQL Server, combined disaster recovery and backup for remote office/back office environments and initial support for Nutanix Acropolis File Services. The Slovenia-based company, ...
Bracket says it can head off attacks operating systems don’t see
Bracket Computing Inc. has upped the ante in its security software suite with new protections against a variety of difficult-to-detect attacks. The new feature set, called Server Guard, is part of a workload isolation technology the company calls Metavisor. Similar to a hypervisor, but sitting closer to the operating system, Metavisor safeguards critical parts of ...
Jitterbit banks $25 million investment as API frenzy continues
Application program interface orchestration startup Jitterbit Inc. today said it raised $25 million to boost sales and services as well as to strengthen its international presence. The Series C funding round was led by global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which led the company’s previous funding round nearly two years ago. Jitterbit is a 12-year-old data integration company ...
HPE debuts modular Superdome successor for in-memory computing
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is giving its Superdome in-memory computing platform its first major upgrade in nearly three years with a modular edition that enables customers to start small and scale up to 48 terabytes of memory in a single system. The Superdome Flex incorporates technology HPE acquired with the purchase of Silicon Graphics International Corp. ...
Riverbed broadly enhances SteelCentral SD-WAN performance monitor
Software-defined wide-area network provider Riverbed Technology Inc. has enhanced its Riverbed SteelCentral network performance monitor with better information, improved analytics support and support for containers. The company also announced an alliance with Zscaler Inc. to deliver a secure cloud-based service aimed at branch and remote offices. Riverbed is targeting the market for digital experience management, or products ...
As earnings beat forecast, Hortonworks says it’s about to hit cash-flow breakeven
Hortonworks Inc. today beat analysts’ estimates on both revenue and profit in its third quarter, providing further evidence that its pure-play open source business model is gaining traction. The company also raised revenue guidance for the fourth quarter and the year. Investors chose to focus on its growing deferred-revenue line and bid the stock down slightly ...
Alibaba Group leads $27M funding round for MariaDB
MariaDB Corp., the most recent company to make a case for a profitable open-source business model, today announced a vote of confidence in the form of a $27 million investment led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Also participating were existing investors Intel Capital Corp., California Technology Ventures LLC, Tesi Group, SmartFin Capital and Open Ocean SAS. MariaDB’s ...
Security startup silences chatty networks to thwart attacks
The internet was never designed to be secure, a fact that has given information technology organizations fits for more than 20 years. The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol behind the internet assumes a high level of trust for devices that are on an internal network and willingly shares information about other devices on the same subnet, ...
